B. Nonlinear Modulation of Plasma Waves

Evolution of nonlinear waves in compressing plasma

Negative-mass instability in nonlinear plasma waves.

The negative-mass instability, previously found in ion traps, appears as a distinct regime of the sideband instability in nonlinear plasma waves with trapped particles. As the bounce frequency of these particles decreases with the bounce action, bunching can occur if the action distribution is inverted in trapping islands. In contrast to existing theories that also infer instabilities from the ...

Nonlinear magnetoacoustic waves in a cold plasma

The equations describing planar magnetoacoustic waves of permanent form in a cold plasma are rewritten so as to highlight the presence of a naturally small parameter equal to the ratio of the electron and ion masses. If the magnetic field is not nearly perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation, this allows us to use a multiple-scale expansion to demonstrate the existence and nature of ...

Nonlinear Two - Dimensional Potential Plasma Wake Waves

The condition for potential description of the wake waves, generated by flat or cylindrical driving electron bunch in cold plasma is derived. The two-dimensional nonlinear equation for potential valid for small values of that is obtained and solved by the separation of variables. Solutions in the form of cnoidal waves,existing behind the moving bunch at small values of vertical coordinate,are o...

A Hamiltonian Approach to Nonlinear Modulation of Surface Water Waves

Many wave phenomena in physics are described by weakly nonlinear nearly monochromatic solutions in the form of modulated wave packets. The examples include ocean waves as well as waves in optics and in plasmas. There are a number of approaches to deriving the envelope equations for these theories of amplitude modulation. In this paper, we give a unified approach, based on the principles of a Ha...